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Thats a fair question. i was saying thats a fair question, but my problem is that the democrats havent waited until they have all the information. they claim theyre going to do this investigation and inquiry. dont forget, tuesday before this information came out, the speaker said no, were going to start this investigation. what were finding out is the transcript didnt seem to be overly damning. they didnt have the eight demands for quid pro quo as mr. schiff said it would. the whistle-blower is ...

Other assertions the president made, thats the dni doing his job, being honest broker to the american people. most importantly, he has to do that with congress. ill give you a quick example from my book, "the spy masters" coming out in april. before the raid that killed osama bin laden, leon panetta went to congress and briefed them in detail on the entire operation prior to the raid. well, when president obama and chief of staff bill daley found out about it, they were sure they would pick up "...

Suppress this and theyll try to make it murky and muddy. first, the statute or the law is not discretionary. it says shall deliver report to congress and theyre not doing that. second of all, whatever the president may say about his conversation, he, from the reports, is asking that his private, personal attorney be involved in this. giuliani, his personal, private attorney has no government role and its obviously of a personal nature for him. >> so i want to ask you, garrett, when we look ahead...

Journal" reports president trump urged the president of ukraine to work with his personal lawyer, rudy giuliani, who recently met with ukrainian officials in europe about investigating hunter bidens business dealings. last night, giuliani at first denied asking the ukrainian government to investigate biden. >> did you ask the ukraine to investigate joe biden? >> no, actually, i didnt. >> reporter: then seconds later he acknowledged he did. >> so you did ask ukraine to look into joe biden. >> of ...

The campaign was very disciplined. last night, this morning, all day today they had no comment on the record. they were not talking about this on background. there were no tweets. he was very clear that the campaign did not want to engage on this. this is just not where they want this election battle to be fought even as other people saw this as potentially elevating joe biden in a crowded primary field. the biden campaign didnt touch this. you saw biden coming out after this event here. he spok...

Directly the president of the united states and a communication and starts to explain a lot of the really unusual activity, the keeping from congress, the assertions of privilege and other things that weve seen. >> thats a really interesting element about -- that it was a matter before the committee. thank you for sharing that. thank you for sharing all of your reporting. maybe well find out more after the ig goes to capitol hill today. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> really interesting di...

Were back to our a aanl ---age i analysts. were the democrats prepared for what happened? >> i think the five minute rule is absurd. >> each member gets five minutes. >> barry burke who is the lawyer who had 30 minutes did a good job if anything was still watching at the end of the day. he pointed out that all these assertions of privilege, i cant disclose these conversations i had with the president. li lewandowski has written two books where he disclosed the conversations. the idea he can disc...

For him or his administration. now corey lewandowski tweeted about his testimony. he said, excited to remind the american people today there was no collusion, no obstruction and he reminded everyone to tune in. expect some fireworks today in the house judiciary committee. jim and poppy? >> the last time he testified before house intel was fiery, but behind closed doors. totally different ball game and different committee. lauren, thanks very much. lets talk about this more with our legal analy...

President trump, but he refused to carry out the order that mr. trump asked them to do is very interesting. why did he not do that and why did mr. dearborn, the other person he asked to carry out that order not do it either? secondly, there are no privilege issues here. he was never an employee of the president. so i think that any assertions that theres privilege issues is mistak mistaken. >> let us see what happens today. congressman, thanks for coming on. i really appreciate it, all the commi...

Now, "the times" first published the allegations that are contained in the book, but they failed to note that the woman at the center of the latest assertions declined to be interviewed for the book and told friends that she could not remember the alleged incident. "the times" added that part of the story a full day later. president trump has seized on that, attacking the story and the credibility of the "new york times." many of the democratic presidential candidates have chimed in as well for ...